Plane Crash

ARTICLES ABOUT PLANE CRASH BY DATE - PAGE 2

HOLLAND, Mich. (AP) - Authorities in western Michigan say a man who was making touch-and-go landings at the Tulip City Airport in Holland fell short of the runway on one of his passes and died in the crash of his home-built plane. The Grand Rapids Press says the man was in his 60s and is from Gobles. It says he was the only person aboard. The newspaper says the crash happened about 6:45 p.m. Thursday. It says Federal Aviation Administration record show the plane was an experimental Q200 plane.

PLAINWELL, Mich. (AP) - Authorities say a small plane has clipped a FedEx semi-trailer and crashed along U.S. 131 near a small airport in southwestern Michigan, killing the pilot. TV stations WOOD and WZZM report the crash happened Friday morning in Allegan County near Plainwell Municipal Airport, about 35 miles south of Grand Rapids. Paul Brindley, who runs the airfield, tells the Kalamazoo Gazette a wing of the plane clipped the trailer of a northbound semi as the plane was landing.

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) - Brad McCrimmon, killed Wednesday when a private jet carrying a Russian professional hockey team crashed shortly after takeoff, was remembered as a rugged yet keen and confident hockey player and coach who helped dozens of players and teammates. He was 52. McCrimmon became coach of the Kontinental Hockey League's Lokomotiv Yaroslavl in May. "He was such a personable guy and a guy you wanted to listen to on a regular basis," said former Calgary Flames teammate Perry Berezan.

MARSHALL TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Officials say the pilot of a small plane who was critically injured during a crash in a field near the southwestern Michigan community of Marshall has died. The Battle Creek Enquirer and the Kalamazoo Gazette report 59-year-old John Hoffman of Marshall died Monday at a Lansing hospital. Authorities say the plane spiraled down and crashed west of Brooks Field Airport on Sunday evening. The site is in Calhoun County's Marshall Township.

TAWAS CITY, Mich. (AP) - Northern Michigan authorities say a 52-year-old pilot had a close call when his float plane crashed in the Au Sable River. Iosco County Sheriff Allan MacGregor says Daniel Gary of Oscoda was trying to land the 1960 Cessna 180D on Sunday when it flipped. MacGregor tells The Bay City Times that the plane landed upside down in the water above Foote Dam, west of Oscoda in the northern Lower Peninsula. Gary was trapped inside, and the sheriff says the Oscoda Fire Department assembled a water rescue team before Gary managed to free himself without help.

BOYNE CITY - The pilot of a small plane is dead following a crash of the aircraft today, Saturday, just south of the Boyne City Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said. The crash, involving a Taylorcraft single-engine plane, occurred shortly before 11 a.m. today in an industrial park on Boyne City's southeast side. “We were told that there was just the pilot on board, and the pilot was a fatality,” said Chicago-based FAA spokesman Tony Molinaro. In a press release, Boyne City city manager Michael Cain said there was no damage to property or injuries to individuals on the ground.

A post written Tuesday by the Hatch family on a webpage dedicated to Austin Hatch , the 16-year-old 2013 University of Michigan basketball recruit who survived a plane crash in Charlevoix that resulted in the deaths of his father and stepmother last month, says the boy "continues to progress. " The post reads: "We celebrate every 'small victory' as Austin continues to progress. He's healing with the loving care of medical experts! Austin even has his blue "Kobe" shoes on (size 15)

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) -- Hundreds of people filled a church to remember a Fort Wayne couple who died in a plane crash in northern Michigan that left a teenage basketball standout critically injured. The private memorial service on Wednesday at Blackhawk Christian Ministries honored Dr. Stephen Hatch and his wife, Kim. The couple died June 24 when their small plane crashed while approaching Charlevoix Municipal Airport. A preliminary report by the National Transportation Safety Board said the plane's nose pitched up and the aircraft rolled to the left before impact as 46-year-old Stephen Hatch was attempting an instrument approach with a cloud ceiling of about 200 feet.

Although 16-year-old Austin Hatch was the only human who survived a June 24 fatal plane crash in Charlevoix, the Charlevoix Area Humane Society says there was a canine survivor as well. Austin’s dog, a young male labradoodle named Brady, somehow escaped the plane without injury and was picked up by an animal control officer late Saturday afternoon less than a mile from the crash site, said Julie Whitley, animal control supervisor with the Charlevoix County Sheriff’s Office. Another dog aboard the plane, Ally, an elderly female sheltie collie, died as a result of the crash, Whitley said.